By the way, did I mention I added instagram to my ever growing list of social media accounts? I like to take snapshots of my works in progress, and I figured it would be a great place to put them. Also, there’s cat photos.

So I copied a picture with the grid method. But now I wonder: Since it is a copy, it doesn’t actually reflect my skill, does it? Since I am sure I couldn’t have done this without the grid, does this have any worth? (Even now it does not look exactly like the reference photo…)
Will I learn anything from this or is this more or less the same kind of cheating as as tracing? I’m really not sure…

This summer an old friend of mine got married.
She was the one who helped me create the characters of VIP. (Back then we wanted to draw a webcomic, we never made it very far. By the time I drew VIP I already suspected this would pretty much be the last I’d see of them…) Well, I thought, I cannot go to that wedding without bringing them along.

It was very nostalgic to paint with copic markers! (Although most of mine are empty…) I took a few photos of the process, though I’m sure you can tell I was a little out of practice…